I've read that Microsoft uses a mechanism called Velocity to remotely enable or disable certain features on Windows 10 and, now more prominently, on Windows 11. So said features appear to automagically show up on the OS, without any intervention by the user (or sometimes just needs a reboot, like the Teams Chat icon..) There's even a third-party tool to manually enable/disable these Velocity controlled features -- ViVeTool. How does this work exactly? Is this similar in any way to Windows 7/8's Redpill and Bluepill ? -- Also, are features such as Windows Subsystem for Android and DirectStorage already present on 22000.100, but locked behind Velocity?
What is there to explain, whether features are enabled by FxP, EP or like with 22000.xxx by LCU, i don't care.
LOL I just wanted to know what this Velocity thing is exactly and if it's similar to Red Pill/Blue Pill.
From what I suspect they push it through the Store infrastructure, possibly through the "dmwappushservice".
microsoft controls a lot of things on their end just like when and how updates get sent to different regions, testers within region and so on just like samsung controls when countries and oem's get updates to android patches/updates/upgrades; the only thing in our control is if it is somehow found to be hidden in registry and can be unlocked or in the form of a download that can be installed and unlocked; if like a policy from server to client then microsoft is the server backend and we our the client OS that has to wait until they unlock on their end for it to work, similar to enterprise/smb where the policy is locked on the server and the update is sent to the client locking out a specific feature or features thru group policy on active directory/azure active directory